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<Component name="PageMeta">
title: "Careers at ept AI | Join Us"
lastUpdated: "2026-04-23"
route: "/careers"
description: "Join ept AI and help build the Agentic Sales Platform for OEM suppliers. We're remote-first, early-stage, deep-domain, and AI-native. Explore open roles."
owner: "rob@ept.ai"
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devNotes: {
  ogImage: "/assets/og/careers.png",
  twitterCard: "summary_large_image",
  personaTargets: "Prospective hires evaluating the company, recruiters, referral candidates"
}
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<Component name="HeroSection">
layout: "text-left-animation-right"
h1: "We're building something genuinely new"
subhead: "ept AI is defining a new category for B2B tech companies. The team is small, the traction is real, and every person who joins now shapes what the company becomes."
imageBrief: "Abstract visualization of a collaborative team building AI-powered enterprise tools, with nodes and connections representing knowledge and teamwork."
imagePath: "/images/pages/connectors.svg"
altText: "Team building AI-powered enterprise tools"
ctaPrimary: "See open roles"
ctaPrimaryUrl: "#open-positions"
ctaSecondary: "About"
ctaSecondaryUrl: "/about"
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<Component name="BenefitsGrid">
title: "Why ept AI"
subtitle: "What it's like to work here — and why it matters."
benefits: [
  {
    title: "Remote-first",
    description: "Work from wherever you do your best thinking. We're distributed by design, not by compromise."
  },
  {
    title: "Early stage",
    description: "Named customers in production. Category-defining product. You're early enough to shape everything, late enough to prove it works."
  },
  {
    title: "Deep domain",
    description: "Built by people who've spent careers in semiconductor, industrial, and enterprise tech. Domain expertise isn't optional here — it's the advantage."
  },
  {
    title: "AI-native",
    description: "AI isn't a feature we bolted on. Living Profiles, Skills, and Interfaces are built from the ground up as an intelligence platform."
  },
  {
    title: "Real impact",
    description: "TDK Lambda in full production. Novanta delivering results in 10 weeks. What you build ships to enterprise customers."
  },
  {
    title: "Founding culture",
    description: "Small team, high trust, low bureaucracy. Every person here directly influences the product, the customers, and the company trajectory."
  }
]
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<Component name="MetricGrid">
title: "The traction is real"
metrics: [
  { metric: "Cross-sell signals surfaced in 10 weeks", result: "430", product: "Novanta — Deal Room", url: "/solutions/deal-room" },
  { metric: "Parts searchable in natural language — full production", result: "135K", product: "TDK Lambda — AI Product Channel", url: "/solutions/ai-product-channel" },
  { metric: "Feature adoption by week 10 of pilot", result: "~100%", product: "Enterprise customers", url: "/about" }
]
</Component>

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<Component name="RipplingJobBoard">
title: "Open positions"
subtitle: "Explore our current openings and find your next opportunity."
boardId: "ept-ai-inc"
contactEmail: "careers@ept.ai"
contactCta: "Don't see the right role? Reach out at"
</Component>

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<Component name="CTA">
backgroundImage: "/images/feature_highlight.png"
backgroundColor: "transparent"
headline: "Interested in ept AI?"
copy: "Even if you don't see an open role that fits, we're always interested in connecting with talented people who are passionate about AI and B2B technology."
ctaText: "Get in touch"
ctaUrl: "mailto:careers@ept.ai"
ctaSecondary: "Learn about the platform"
ctaSecondaryUrl: "/platform/overview"
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